30 Day Retreat (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola)
(Pre-requisite: must do a 6-8 day retreat with Nita to discern if you are called to this)Part 1: 10-weeks retreat in daily life (2018 now open for enquiry)
Spiritual and Compassionate Listening Course
Pre-requisite: 6-8 day discernment retreat & 30-day Spiritual Exercises with Nita to clearly discern if you are called to this ministry.
Testimonies:
Elizabeth Rutten-Ng, Netherlands
Through 35-days of both online and residential retreat, Elizabeth went from a space of hurt, fragmentation of Self who left her family home, former work, and even the country she was born in TO BE-coming a healed, whole person. A beautiful woman who knows who she is, who knows God's LOVE, an empowered, strong woman who now brings Love & Light to others as well.
Bonnie Wong, Hong Kong
Experience of loneliness
- The experience of 2 weeks stay-in silent retreat was totally different from the retreat in daily life before the stay-in one, in terms of the experience of loneliness, as well as the anxiety brought by the “too-much” time to be spent with God alone and having nothing to do. Looking back, such loneliness (or solitude) is a must to clear all the obstacles in my heart in order to create a sacred place for meeting with God.
- I was more open and my senses were sharper when I was forced to be alone; I can see more carefully, listen more closely, feel more deeply towards myself, the Divine and the outside world.
Loving feeling
- I was frightened by Jesus’ direct expression of craze and passionate love like young lovers, so full of energy and zest. Through love song and images, I was overwhelmed by and infused in the loving feeling, being loved, adored, appreciated and treasured as if I was His only love. The love burnt through days and it eventually turns into a gentle and long lasting flame of love.
- I will never forget Jesus’ craze love for sure but His gentle love would be enough for me to recognize Him through such loving feeling.
Rich Prayer
- Through contemplative prayer on the Gospel, I was led by the Spirit to face my anger towards the Father and those political leaders in connection with all the sufferings and tragedies in the world. The Spirit helps me to see sufferings with a different angle, in particular to understand the Father’s heart more, I was moved by the union of the Trinity and the love between the Father and the Son.
- Through drawing from Ignatius, I was attracted to “becoming a child”, to let God take my hands to explore, to look at the world like a child, to live like a child. Through drawing, I am more ready to “unlearn” and put down my own mindset and framework as I can never understand life “logically”. By the end of retreat, I co-created with the Spirit on a painting named “Dance of the Spirit”, the strokes was like flame, like dance, like movement, like the dress of the spinning Flamingo dancers, so full of life, love and energy.
- The icon of “Jesus My Companion” was inductive to my prayer. It helps me to entering into the sacred space to meet with Jesus. The workshop on Icon Writing helped me to recognize Jesus not by His face but the loving feeling and His radiant light.
After the Retreat
- The experience of the retreat was very rich and some of it was flashed back from time to time. Among them, the feelings and drawings are deeply imprinted in the heart and I do need to review my journal for other inspiration, thinking and fragments.
